Re: [gentoo-user] sound not working

[J. Roeleveld]

On Sunday, January 3, 2021 9:17:43 AM CET the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 1/2/21 10:45 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > I have:
> > lspci | grep -i audio
> > 08:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio
> > Controller (rev a1) 0a:00.4 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> > [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio Controller
> > 
> > Kernel (seems like correct driver)
> > grep -i snd_hda_intel .config
> > CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y
> > # CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL_DETECT_DMIC is not set
> > 
> > User is in "audio" group.
> > alsamixer is showing only:
> > Card: PulseAudio
> > Chip: PulseAudio
> > 
> > Shouldn't it be showing some kind of Nvidia audio?
> 
> I was able to make it to work by compiling some additional codec in kernel
> but I can not store the alsa letting:
> 
> alsamixer
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid
> 1000! (This could e.g. happen if you try to connect to a non-root
> PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.)
> 
> What to do with it?

What it says, don't run "alsamixer" as root.

--
Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] sound not working

[thelma]

On 1/2/21 10:45 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I have:
> lspci | grep -i audio
> 08:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio 
> Controller (rev a1)
> 0a:00.4 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD 
> Audio Controller
> 
> Kernel (seems like correct driver)
> grep -i snd_hda_intel .config
> CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y
> # CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL_DETECT_DMIC is not set
> 
> User is in "audio" group.  
> alsamixer is showing only:
> Card: PulseAudio 
> Chip: PulseAudio
> 
> Shouldn't it be showing some kind of Nvidia audio? 
 
I was able to make it to work by compiling some additional codec in kernel but 
I can not store the alsa letting:

alsamixer 
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid 1000! 
(This could e.g. happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio as a 
root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.)

What to do with it?

[gentoo-user] sound not working

[thelma]

I have:
lspci | grep -i audio
08:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio 
Controller (rev a1)
0a:00.4 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD 
Audio Controller

Kernel (seems like correct driver)
grep -i snd_hda_intel .config
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y
# CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL_DETECT_DMIC is not set

User is in "audio" group.  
alsamixer is showing only:
Card: PulseAudio 
Chip: PulseAudio

Shouldn't it be showing some kind of Nvidia audio? 

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel 
wrote:

> I use pulseaudio without ALSA, for what it's worth. I also don't use VLC
> or mplayer.
>

That's interesting. I didn't know one could use pulseaudio with ALSA left
out.

I set the global USE flag to '-alsa' in '/etc/portage/make.conf' and ran
'emerge -aU' to see what would be pulled in/unmerged. Here's a list of
packages emerge wanted to pull in:
Calculating dependencies  . ...  done!
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.36-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.10.36-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.10.36-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.10.36-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23-r2  USE="nls orc"
[ebuild  N ] media-libs/faad2-2.7-r3  USE="-digitalradio -static-libs"
[ebuild  N ] media-sound/cdparanoia-3.10.2-r6  USE="-static-libs"
[ebuild   R] net-misc/rdesktop-1.8.3  USE="-alsa*"
[ebuild  N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-r1  USE="nls orc"
[ebuild  N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.31-r1  USE="nls orc"
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-resindvd-0.10.23-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dts-0.10.23-r1  USE="orc"
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad-0.10.23-r2
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvid-0.10.23-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdparanoia-0.10.36-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.19-r1  USE="orc"
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x264-0.10.19-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.10.19-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.10.31-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-0.10.19-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-pulse-0.10.31-r1
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13_p201211-r5
USE="orc -libav"
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.19-r1
[ebuild   R] media-video/mplayer-1.2_pre20150214-r1  USE="-alsa*"
[ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r10  USE="X a52 aac
cdda dts dvd ffmpeg flac mp3 mpeg ogg pulseaudio vorbis x264 xv xvid -alsa
-dv -dvb -http -jack -lame -libass -libvisual -mms -modplug -musepack -opus
-oss -taglib -theora -v4l -vcd -vpx -wavpack"
[ebuild   R] xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.11.0  USE="-alsa*"
[ebuild   R] media-video/vlc-2.2.1-r1  USE="-alsa*"

Is this what you use, 'media-pugins/gst-plugins'?


>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 06:33:41PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> > Recently, sound has stopped working on one of my Gentoo systems. I have
> > checked the kernel, package and pulseaudio set-ups across all of my
> systems
> > in an attempt to pin down the problem, but so far to no avail. The sound
> > works fine on the other systems I have.
>
> Are they any changes you just made that may have caused the problem? Do
> all the systems have the same configuration?
>

I did not make any changes to alsa, or pulse audio that I'm aware of. Just
been pulling in whatever updates portage had for me on a regular bases.
Running a 4.4.0-vanilla kernel on all my systems, so that can't be the
culprit.


>
> >
> > Having 'alsa-sink' enabled, generates the following output in
> > '/var/log/messages'.
> > # grep 'Jan 19.*pulseaudio' /var/log/messages
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3686]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
> > load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3686]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load
> > failed.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3686]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to
> > initialize daemon.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3638]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon
> startup
> > failed.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3706]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
> > load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3706]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load
> > failed.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3706]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to
> > initialize daemon.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3703]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon
> startup
> > failed.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3719]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
> > load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3719]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load
> > failed.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3719]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to
> > initialize daemon.
> > Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3716]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon
> startup
> > failed.
> >
> > My sound card details are.
> > lspci -k
> > ...
> > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> > Controller (rev 02)
> > Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> > Controller
> > Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
> > ...
>
> Have you looked at dmesg and/or any ALSA logs to see why ALSA-related
> stuff can't be 

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

[Alec Ten Harmsel]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 09:57:18PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel 
> wrote:
> 
> > I use pulseaudio without ALSA, for what it's worth. I also don't use VLC
> > or mplayer.
> >
> 
> That's interesting. I didn't know one could use pulseaudio with ALSA left
> out.

I am not extremely familiar with how sound works, to be honest. I do
have the 'alsa' USE flag set on pulseaudio. Here are the modules I have
loaded in /etc/pulse/default.pa:

module-always-sink
module-augment-properties
module-card-restore
module-default-device-restore
module-detect
module-device-restore
module-filter-apply
module-filter-heuristics
module-intended-roles
module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1
module-native-protocol-unix
module-position-event-sounds
module-rescue-streams
module-role-cork
module-stream-restore
module-suspend-on-idle
module-switch-on-port-available
module-udev-detect

> I set the global USE flag to '-alsa' in '/etc/portage/make.conf' and ran
> 'emerge -aU' to see what would be pulled in/unmerged. Here's a list of
> packages emerge wanted to pull in:
> Calculating dependencies  . ...  done!
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.36-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.10.36-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.10.36-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.10.36-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23-r2  USE="nls orc"
> [ebuild  N ] media-libs/faad2-2.7-r3  USE="-digitalradio -static-libs"
> [ebuild  N ] media-sound/cdparanoia-3.10.2-r6  USE="-static-libs"
> [ebuild   R] net-misc/rdesktop-1.8.3  USE="-alsa*"
> [ebuild  N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.19-r1  USE="nls orc"
> [ebuild  N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-0.10.31-r1  USE="nls orc"
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-resindvd-0.10.23-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dts-0.10.23-r1  USE="orc"
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad-0.10.23-r2
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvid-0.10.23-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-cdparanoia-0.10.36-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-a52dec-0.10.19-r1  USE="orc"
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-x264-0.10.19-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.10.19-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.10.31-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-0.10.19-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-pulse-0.10.31-r1
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg-0.10.13_p201211-r5
> USE="orc -libav"
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-mpeg2dec-0.10.19-r1
> [ebuild   R] media-video/mplayer-1.2_pre20150214-r1  USE="-alsa*"
> [ebuild  N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r10  USE="X a52 aac
> cdda dts dvd ffmpeg flac mp3 mpeg ogg pulseaudio vorbis x264 xv xvid -alsa
> -dv -dvb -http -jack -lame -libass -libvisual -mms -modplug -musepack -opus
> -oss -taglib -theora -v4l -vcd -vpx -wavpack"
> [ebuild   R] xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.11.0  USE="-alsa*"
> [ebuild   R] media-video/vlc-2.2.1-r1  USE="-alsa*"
> 
> Is this what you use, 'media-pugins/gst-plugins'?

Sorry, I misled you. I do not have any software configured to use ALSA
as far as I know, but pulseaudio is configured with the 'alsa' USE flag
as I mentioned above.

> > >
> > > My sound card details are.
> > > lspci -k
> > > ...
> > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> > > Controller (rev 02)
> > > Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> > > Controller
> > > Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
> > > ...
> >
> > Have you looked at dmesg and/or any ALSA logs to see why ALSA-related
> > stuff can't be initialized? Intel hardware and drivers have always
> > treated me well, so this is strange.
> >
> 
> '/var/log/dmesg' has this:
> [1.361704] ALSA device list:
> [1.361991]   No soundcards found.
> 
> While 'aplay -l | grep HDA' says this:
> card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
> card 1: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1
> Digital]
> 

Hmmm, strange that the model numbers are different between aplay and
lspci. Do any of your other machines have the same hardware, and do
lspci and aplay report the same stuff?

Alec

[gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

[Alexander Kapshuk]

Recently, sound has stopped working on one of my Gentoo systems. I have
checked the kernel, package and pulseaudio set-ups across all of my systems
in an attempt to pin down the problem, but so far to no avail. The sound
works fine on the other systems I have.

Hopefully, someone on the list will shed some light on what might be the
problem, or how to further troubleshoot it.

Here is some details.

% grep '^[^#.]' /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
load-module module-switch-on-port-available
load-module module-alsa-sink
load-module module-udev-detect
load-module module-detect
load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
load-module module-gconf
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-rescue-streams
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
load-module module-suspend-on-idle
load-module module-console-kit
load-module module-systemd-login
load-module module-position-event-sounds
load-module module-role-cork
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply

With 'load-module module-alsa-sink' enabled, pulseaudio will not start.
% ps uxwww | grep  -c '[p]ulse'
0

Having 'alsa-sink' enabled, generates the following output in
'/var/log/messages'.
# grep 'Jan 19.*pulseaudio' /var/log/messages
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3686]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3686]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load
failed.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3686]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to
initialize daemon.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3638]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup
failed.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3706]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3706]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load
failed.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3706]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to
initialize daemon.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3703]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup
failed.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3719]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3719]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load
failed.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3719]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to
initialize daemon.
Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3716]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup
failed.

My sound card details are.
lspci -k
...
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
...

The kernel config options enabled for HDA are.
% grep '^[^#].*HDA' /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_SND_HDA=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CIRRUS=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CONEXANT=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0110=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0132=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CMEDIA=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SI3054=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0
CONFIG_SND_HDA_CORE=y
CONFIG_SND_HDA_PREALLOC_SIZE=2048

% equery -q u media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1 | grep +
+X
+alsa
+alsa-plugin
+asyncns
+bluetooth
+caps
+dbus
+gdbm
+glib
+gtk
+ipv6
+orc
+ssl
+tcpd
+udev
+webrtc-aec


With the set-up above, I still have sound when playing video content in my
web browser, via Adobe Flash Player.

Playing videos using VLC, or Mplayer does not work.

With 'load-module module-alsa-sink' commented out, pulseaudio is able to
start.

% ps uxwww | grep  '[p]ulse'
sasha 3694  0.1  0.2 182496 10164 ?Sl   18:15   0:00
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
sasha 3713  0.0  0.2 166112  9988 ?Ssl  18:15   0:00
xfce4-volumed-pulse

But still no sound, when playing videos using a media player, or in the web
browser using Adobe Flash Player.


Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

[Alec Ten Harmsel]

I use pulseaudio without ALSA, for what it's worth. I also don't use VLC
or mplayer.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 06:33:41PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> Recently, sound has stopped working on one of my Gentoo systems. I have
> checked the kernel, package and pulseaudio set-ups across all of my systems
> in an attempt to pin down the problem, but so far to no avail. The sound
> works fine on the other systems I have.

Are they any changes you just made that may have caused the problem? Do
all the systems have the same configuration?

> 
> Having 'alsa-sink' enabled, generates the following output in
> '/var/log/messages'.
> # grep 'Jan 19.*pulseaudio' /var/log/messages
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3686]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
> load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3686]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load
> failed.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3686]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to
> initialize daemon.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3638]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup
> failed.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3706]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
> load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3706]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load
> failed.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3706]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to
> initialize daemon.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3703]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup
> failed.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3719]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to
> load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3719]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load
> failed.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3719]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to
> initialize daemon.
> Jan 19 17:58:23 box1 pulseaudio[3716]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup
> failed.
> 
> My sound card details are.
> lspci -k
> ...
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 02)
> Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> Controller
> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
> ...

Have you looked at dmesg and/or any ALSA logs to see why ALSA-related
stuff can't be initialized? Intel hardware and drivers have always
treated me well, so this is strange.

Alec

P.S. Is there a particular reason you are using pulseaudio as a layer
above ALSA? If not, you might just use PA in my opinion.

[gentoo-user] Sound stopped working (xfce4 problem?)

[Grant]

Hello,

Sound stopped working at some point on my laptop.  I don't use the
sound very much so it's hard to say what caused it, but now I need to
start use a SIP phone so I need the sound.  I've double-checked
everything mentioned here:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml

but I can't find anything that indicates anything is wrong, other than
the lack of sound.  The only strange thing is nothing happens when I
click on the Settings - Mixer Settings icon in xfce4 except the
system seems to revert to an older version of GTK or something and X
gets pretty unstable.  Very strange.  This icon is different than the
xfce4-panel volume icon.  That icon works fine.

Can anyone suggest anything to try?

- Grant
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[gentoo-user] Sound not working for user

[Grant]

Hello, sound related apps are no longer working for my user, but they
still do for root.  I get /dev/mixer errors for the user.  Is there
something simple I should check?  I do need to make a bunch of world
updates.

- Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not working for user

[Frank Schafer]

Hi,

check the permissions of /dev/mixer.

Regards
Frank


On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 01:38 -0700, Grant wrote:
 Hello, sound related apps are no longer working for my user, but they
 still do for root.  I get /dev/mixer errors for the user.  Is there
 something simple I should check?  I do need to make a bunch of world
 updates.
 
 - Grant
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not working for user

[Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila]

On 01:38 Fri 12 Aug , Grant wrote:
 Hello, sound related apps are no longer working for my user, but they
 still do for root.  I get /dev/mixer errors for the user.  Is there
 something simple I should check?  I do need to make a bunch of world
 updates.
 
 - Grant
 
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 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Did you give a look at the approppiate gentoo-guide (probably
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml , go to Audio Group)?

cheers
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not working with XDM

[Raffaele BELARDI]

Bob Sanders wrote:
 On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:25:20 -0300
 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
rc.conf to use xdm and everything works ok, but I have no sound, I
tried command-line and X apps, and none has access to the alsa, oss or
esound drivers.
 
 It's probably pam.  Look as /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp, and the contents of
 /dev/sound and /dev/snd.  Who is the group owner?   If it's root,
 then the login isn't getting the permission through pam set correctly.
 
 Look through the forums, and there are some threads about editing
 pam permissions.

If it's ownership-related, I had a similar problem, solved it by
adding myself to the audio group, and changing the sound entry in
/etc/security/console.perms so that it reads:

console  0660 sound  0660 root.audio

(notice the 0660, default is 0600).

raf
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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not working with XDM

[jakub . krajcovic]

I definitely think it's ownership related. The problem is somewhere 
between pam and udev, but i think it's more likely pam. I experienced a 
very similar (if not the same) issue some time ago. When you start xdm, 
it starts as root, and somehow, something sets very restrictive (600) 
permissions on the sound devices.
So, as pointed out before, play around with pam and fix the permissions 
(i think that there is a howto for this in the forums).


jakub


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On jún 2, 2005, at 12:27, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:


If it's ownership-related, I had a similar problem, solved it by
adding myself to the audio group, and changing the sound entry in
/etc/security/console.perms so that it reads:

console  0660 sound  0660 root.audio

(notice the 0660, default is 0600).



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Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not working with XDM

[Daniel da Veiga]

Yeah, that solved the problem, it seems that the mask 600 appear more
secure to xdm than 660 :) that and group permissions and it was all
working, thanks to all of you!!!

On 6/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I definitely think it's ownership related. The problem is somewhere
 between pam and udev, but i think it's more likely pam. I experienced a
 very similar (if not the same) issue some time ago. When you start xdm,
 it starts as root, and somehow, something sets very restrictive (600)
 permissions on the sound devices.
 So, as pointed out before, play around with pam and fix the permissions
 (i think that there is a howto for this in the forums).
 
 jakub
 
 
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 On jún 2, 2005, at 12:27, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
 
  If it's ownership-related, I had a similar problem, solved it by
  adding myself to the audio group, and changing the sound entry in
  /etc/security/console.perms so that it reads:
 
  console  0660 sound  0660 root.audio
 
  (notice the 0660, default is 0600).
 
 
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[gentoo-user] Sound not working with XDM

[Daniel da Veiga]

Greetings,

I'm not sure about what's happening, ALSA is configured and working,
all mixer settings OK, if I use GDM, everything works fine (all apps
have sound), but GDM is just crashing with no reason while fluxbox is
running, a few clicks and BUM! Its out. So, I decided to use xdm
(because its small, fast and I had used it as my first dm). I changed
rc.conf to use xdm and everything works ok, but I have no sound, I
tried command-line and X apps, and none has access to the alsa, oss or
esound drivers.

Is there a tutorial or howto about this? I tried all manuals and
couldn't find anything, they all say that if alsa is configured, all
my system should use it ok.

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